An initial layout of my project proves difficult to see the whole form of the piece. I spent seven days journaling to stimulate ideas and begin to give shape to my senior project. I find the need to resist overanalyzing and always remember to simplify.
Looking at these notes -- great of you to share them -- I linger on the desires, need for sound. Watching your initial edit (wind farm / warehouse), I am impressed with the sound of the space, but given the length of the opening wind farm sequence, I crave the intrusion of a human voice. 1) As a way, I think to sustain our investment in the space, to entice us with an added element that asks us to re-negotiate the space anew. (The readability of the windmills - simple but odd in their bigness -- may be a challenge. They can be visually commanding, but can that be sustained?) 2) As a way to get to your concerns:. You are interested, are you not, in how an individual can meet or attempt or embrace a practice of sustainability. I am not sure how much voice, or what voice, or the content of said voice, but I think it could readily introduce other concerns while maintaing our visual interest. 3) A voice could be an introduction to the individual in the second sequence. Not that the voice would have to be hers -- could be, how do you see the relation between the two sequences? -- but a voice could introduce us to the idea of a human presence/scale/relationship that is elaborated in the second sequence.
ReplyDeleteWait: you watched STALKER? Tell me more!
ReplyDeleteAlso: watch some James Benning. I think I had forwarded recommenations, DVDs that the library has.
Also: Jem Cohen’s “Chain”
Other works I thought of while watching your first footage compilation:
+Michael Snow’s “La Region Central” and, no, I was not being glib.
+ Ivan Passer’s neo-noir “Cutter’s Way,” for its use of off shore oil platforms as atmospheric commentary (corporate villainy; looming markers of moral contamination.)
+ do you shoot the windmills in a way that John Smith shoots the Black Tower in “The Black Tower”?